Featured Tune: "Who Was I" from Jeremy Parsons

A Mirror Held to Time — Jeremy Parsons’ “Who Was I”

Jeremy Parsons’ new single, “Who Was I,” is the sound of a man sitting down with his past and finally asking it the right questions. Drawn from his upcoming EP Life, the song feels like a letter sent backward through time, honest, weary, but tenderly forgiving. Parsons, who’s carved out a steady place in the Country/Americana scene, strips things down here to their raw nerve: self-reckoning.

There’s an unhurried grace to how he tells his story. The instrumentation, true to his Texas roots, blends warm acoustic textures with steady percussion that keeps the song grounded even as the lyrics wander through memory. You can hear the years between who he was and who he’s become in the timbre of his voice, a little roughened, but richer for it.

What started as a tongue-in-cheek reaction to a critic turned into one of Parsons’ most sincere works yet. “Who Was I” captures the ache of youth and the clarity of hindsight without slipping into self-pity. It’s the sound of a songwriter coming home to himself, realizing that even the mistakes were part of the map.